Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains

And here's a blog post on Wired.com about something we've been discussing in class: technology (and, with it, the overload of information) and how it affects our attention. Very interesting!

In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Jackson explores the effects of "our high-speed, overloaded, split-focus and even cybercentric society" on attention. It's not a pretty picture: a never-ending stream of phone calls, e-mails, instant messages, text messages and tweets is part of an institutionalized culture of interruption, and makes it hard to concentrate and think creatively.